Timeline

Just wanted to give you a time frame so you understand the process a little more. Josh and I began the process approximately 1 year ago! Our final documents were received in the Indy office on August 13, 2009! The Bethany office has sent our documents to the headquarters in Michigan which are currently (hopefully) being approved. Once they approve our documents they send them out to Ethiopia and then we begin our wait for a referral. The estimated time for a referral is 12 - 18 months :(! The reason for the length of time is because they have to translate all of our documents and also since we have request an infant (0 - 2 years) it usually takes a little longer. For those of you that have never been through this process before I would just like to inform you that even though it doesn't seen that way the wait is the EASY part! Now I feel like I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. There is nothing hanging over my shoulders anymore! I am going to try and keep a pretty accurate update on here as things become available to me. In the meanwhile I am going to start posting some videos other people have put up of their adoption experience to Ethiopia because I think that these videos have really helped me get a sense of what lies ahead.

This video I found through someone's blog and I think it is a great video!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtsYlsQHV4Q

it is from http://boydfamilyadoption.blogspot.com/